It is easy to understand why someone who doesn't love another person might break the heart of this person-when we do not love those who love us, we are likely to hurt them.

很容易理解为什么某个不爱另一个人的人可能使这个人伤心，当我们不爱那些爱我们的人时，我们很可能伤害他们。

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But this hurt him less than it might have done.

但这对于他来说没有预料的那么伤害大。

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Warnings such as “this may hurt a bit” or “you might feel a little pain”can be counterproductive and actually compound feelings of discomfort, it is believed.

研究发现，类似“这可能会有点儿疼”，“你可能会觉得有些痛”之类的提示可能会起到适得其反的效果，使人们感到更加不安。

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"I can understand that people who actually lived at that time, in the communist era, who were hurt by this system it might upset them to see young people who might have basically no knowledge about this system and didn't live in that, wearing the symbols they don't understand.

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